Montague Rhodes James - M. R. James - was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends...one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: 'Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones the book is gloriously illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards, who has provided a frontispiece and a dozen full-page illustrations, as well as many small pictures throughout the text. Like Gollancz's Black Books (Necronomicon and Conan), this is a wonderful book that should be part of every reader's personal library.
- ISBN10 0857388053
- ISBN13 9780857388056
- Publish Date 26 April 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Quercus Publishing
- Imprint Jo Fletcher Books
- Edition UK airports ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 600
- Language English
- URL quercusbooks.co.uk/book/Curious-Warnings-by-M.R.-James-ISBN_9780857388056